Topics - Andy H

Poxy things. A while ago I fitted new cables and drive pulley to the mechanism in SWMBO's 2002 Ford Galaxy.

Yesterday it self-destructed again, leaving the drivers window fully open. I had to go out in the dark and pull the door card off so I could cut some pieces of wood to length to hold the glass up in the closed position.

Looking back through ebay correspondence it is almost 2 years to the day since I bought the last repair kit

I was just about to book the thing in for an MOT but I have a nagging doubt that it might fail if the drivers window cannot be opened Last time it happened it was a royal pain in the arse operating barriers on multi-storey car parks

This time I will buy a kit including new runners etc assembled and ready to fit (not fit new cables to the old runners).

Does anyone have any experience of Shalahambra (Sharan/Galaxy/Alhambra) window regulators? can anyone recommend a particular make for the replacement?

Genuine appear to cost about £105, pattern £25-£30. If they are all the same crap design as the VAG original then I don't see any point in buying anything but the cheapest......

I have been running a little home server using an HP microserver with 3 hard disks set up in a RAID array with two disks mirroring each other and one hot spare. I cannot remember how long ago I put it together it is looking very dusty so probably several years

I normally switch it on in the morning and walk away but this morning I watched it start up and noticed an error at start up on one of the disks.

It appears that the software RAID has done it's job and switched from using the failing disk and is now using the spare.

my problem now is that I want to replace the failing disk with something equivalent and I haven't been paying attention to who owns which HDD manufacturers and which manufacturers to steer clear of.

As above. The radio in the Project MV6 picks up the channels preset by Rog fine (apart from the Welsh ones....) but the auto tune fails to find any working stations at all, it just keeps going round and round.

I can't find any reference to this in the users manual but I have this notion that FM in Europe uses a different size step between transmission frequency to FM in the US.

A consequence of this would be that a radio configured for auto tune in one area would be rubbish at finding stations in the other area.

1. Am I halfway correct in this?2. Does the CCR2006 have a way of switching between US and European frequency steps?

Finally got myself sorted a week ago ready to start driving the project and the battery had gone flat

I didn't want to leave a charger under the bonnet with an extension lead back to the house so I went to extract the battery so I could charge it. First thing I found was that the retaining bolt was pretty well rusted in - it did come out though with penetrating oil and persistance

Second thing I found was this.

I think this car is going to be a little more trouble than I anticipated

So... James delivered the MV6 to me in mid December and my intention was to SORN it over Christmas then tax &insure it January. One way or another it has taken till now to get around to sorting out insurance quotes but I still don't have the V5 from DVLA so I thought I ought to try declaring SORN online.

This is what comes up so I have to assume that they lost the change of keeper slip that James sent them

BETA This is a new service – your feedback will help us to improve it.Tell us you’re taking your vehicle off the roadUnable to use service

Unfortunately you cannot use this service yet as the previous keeper of the vehicle has not told DVLA that you are the new keeper.You should either:

Wait until you receive the V5C vehicle registration certificate (log book) in your name, and then use the reference number from it to make a SORN online or complete the forms V890 (make a Statutory Off Road Notification), V62 (application for a vehicle registration certificate) and send with your V5C/2 to DVLA Swansea.